Twitter is just a part of everyday life for a lot of us, but back in the days before, someone actually had to think it up. In an upcoming interview on this week's 60 Minutes, Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey sits down to explain exactly how the idea for Twitter came to be.

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According to Dorsey, the idea spouted from his childhood fascination with emergency transmissions he would listen to on a police scanner. It was his first introduction to the short, terse bursts of information he'd later replicate with Twitter. Little did he know Twitter would grow up to become a global news network of its own. And also a place for bad jokes.

You can catch the whole interview this Sunday on CBS at March 17th at 7PM ET/PT. [CBS News]